Drawer-slide.



J. W KENYONL DRAWER SLIDE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 19(4.

Patented July 4, 1916,

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

WITNESSES 5%,? am. c ML? ATTORNEY J. W. KENYON.

DRAWER SLIDE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1914.

Patented July 4, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- I 4 4 ATTORNEY AYES W. ENYON, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN,ASSIGNOR TO THE SHAW-WALKER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

DRAWER-SLIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4:, 1916.

Application filed May 4, 1914. Serial No. 836,052. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, items W. KnNYoN, a citizen of the United States,resldlng at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and of that characterwhich shall be very easy of operation; and further, whose members shallbe readily assembled and disassembled; and further, which shall beimproved -1n various particulars hereinafter appearing. This object isattained'by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, thestructure hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1,is a perspective view of a cab1 net to whichmy invention is applied; Fig. 2 isa view of my drawer slide carried onthe inner surface of a side of such cabinet; F1g. 3 is an enlargedvertical sectional view of the same taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, andshowing a fragment of the drawer. Fig. 4 is a like view taken on lineJP-4c of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a like View taken on line 5-5 of supported. medially of itslength by' the gulded member or roller 7 and being also supportedwhenthe drawer 8 is pushed in by the inner roller 9 both which travel inthe lower guide 5; A suitable guided memthrust of such ultimateslide-member when drawn out being resisted or sustained by a roller 15..A suitable stop 16 against which the lug 10 strikes, limits the outwardmovepivoted on the intermediate member and adapted to be turned into itsstop position shown in the drawings when it is engaged by the-lug 18 inthe drawn-out position of the drawer, and also to be turned on its pivotout of such stop position; when this is done, the drawer with theultimate members may be entirely withdrawn from the cabinet, whereuponthe intermediate slide-members may also be withdrawn by moving them tothe position shown in Fig. 6, wherein the roller 7 registers with a gap19 in the side flange or wall 20 of the lower guide 5: the lower part ofthis roller may now be moved through this gap, and by furtherwithdrawing the intermediate member till the roller 9 registers with thegap, it too may be moved through it, thus removing theinterinediate-slide member entirely.

A suitable bufier 21, preferably of rubber, carried at the inner end ofthe intermediate member, may be provided to receive the stroke of theback 22 of the cabinet on one side and that of the inner end of thedrawer on the other, when the drawer is pushed in. The upper and lowerguides 4; and 5 are ofi set from the face of the primary slide-member 1(by having their inner. wall spaced from the inner' surface of saidmember as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5) suficiently to hold theintermediate slide member 6 out of contact therewith, whereby frictionis minimized; and the hubs 23 provided on one side the lower rollersallow free movement of theretaining flange 24 of the ultimate member'ment is limited by the L-shaped stop 17 i by spacing it from theintermediate slidemember.

It will be seen thatby my arrangement.

of the slide-members withtheir flanges, the rollers are approximately inthe same vertical plane, the intermediate slide-member and thesustaining flange of the ultimate slide-member being thus located withinthe lateral dimension and also the vertical dimensionof the primaryslide-member, thus eeonomizmg space.

It Will be seen' (particularly in Figs. 2,

and 6) that the roller 7. is loosely mounted on the intermediate slidemember 6, so that its axis has a vertical play on or relatively 11a tosuch slide-member. The effect of this arrangement is, that when thedrawer is pulled out far enough for the roller 14 to pass outside of anddrop off of the guide 5, the intermediate slide-members outer end ispermitted to fall slightly, (such member turning on the axis of theroller 9 as a fulcrum), and the horizontally-extending flange 13 of theultimate slide-member 12 (which carries the drawer) will be pressed orpinched by gravity between the roller 7 below and the roller 15 above,thus causing .the roller 7 to tractionally engage saidflange, sothat-the drawers motion in either direction moves the intermediateslide-member at half speed.

Not confining myself to details of construction shown or described, Iclaim 1. In a device of the character described, a primaryslide-memberhaving upper and lower guides one. of which has a gap through itslateral wall, an intermediate slide-member traveling in said guides andhaving a guided member, and an ultimate slide-member movably supportedon the ininsopso 'termediate slidemember, said guided mema primaryslide-member, an intermediate slide-member slidable on the primaryslidemember, and an ultimate slide-member slid able on the intermediateslide-member; one of said slide-members having a guide with a lateralwall and a gap through said wall, and another of said slide-membershaving a guided member slidable in said guide and adapted in oneposition to be moved outwardly through said gap from the guide in whichit slides.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 'my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JAMES W. KENYON. Witnesses:

DAVID E. HUNTER, C. B. VANSLUKE.

